So, we're about 94 hours away from the 4th annual Movember Challenge Karaoke, and all the pieces are starting to fall into place, as they always do right around this time. But it happens that it was also two years ago today that we were throwing #MoChaKaTO year 2!

For me, the best parts of the night are always the challenges; after all, the event was originally born out of the idea that it could be a ridiculous amount of fun to make your friends sing the songs that you want them to sing. The notion that we could raise 20 bucks a crack by doing that was almost secondary.

With the help of the great TImehop app, I took a scroll through my tweets from two years ago tonight. There's so much to do while the event's happening that I often end up neglecting my Twitter account, even though Twitter is integral to the event. But two years ago, it appears that I spent the whole night tweeting out the all the challenges. It's a fun list, and it really highlights all the facets of what the 'Challenge' part of "Movember Challenge Karaoke" can be about.

For example, challenges can sometimes be about hearing someone do a song that's part of their regular repertoire:

Co-host and lead Mo Bro Joshua Murray, challenged to do "Hit Me Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears

Heck, I even had to get up and throw out a poor rendition of 50 Cent's "Just a Little Bit". The less said about that, the better.

Related to the challenge is the buy-out, where the person who gets challenged is either so frightened by or so repulsed by the challenge song that they're willing to pay $30 to not have to sing it. It's possible that I introduced this feature specifically for my own benefit. In fact, it's possible that I may have used it at #MoChaKaTO II to get myself out of having to sing Katy Perry.

By the way, if you count all that through, you'll notice that's $370 worth of songs associated with the challenges. That's a not insignificant amount of the $1,116 total that we raised that year.

So, if you're planning on attending #MoChaKaTO IV on Thursday, I highly encourage you to start thinking about who might be prompting you to shout "Challenge!" that night, and just what type of song you might want to see performed.

And if you're not planning on attending #MoChaKaTO IV on Thursday, well, why the heck not?